software development
I've often thought that software developers were akin to Magpies, birds notorious for stealing shiny items to decorate their complex nests. Like Magpies, software developers are unusually smart and curious creatures, almost by definition. But we are too easily distracted by shiny new toys and playthings. I no
programming languages
A standard part of my development kit is Microsoft's Visual Studio [http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/]. Here's what I have to install to get a current, complete version of Visual Studio 2005 on a new PC: 1. Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition 2. Visual Studio
microsoft
Although I am generally platform agnostic, I make no secret of the fact that I am primarily a Microsoft developer. In a way, I grew up with Microsoft-- as a teenager, I cut my programming teeth on the early microcomputer implementations of Microsoft BASIC. And I spent much of my
origami
Robert J. Lang isn't just a physicist and a software developer-- he's also one of the world's foremost paper-folding artists [http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/070219fa_fact_orlean]: > The laser cutter was growling away, scoring one of Lang's Hanji sheets.
compression
I set up a number of Windows XP SP2 Virtual PC base images today. A WinXP SP2 clean install, after visiting Windows Update, is 1.70 gigabytes. Building up a few baseline images like this can chew up a substantial amount of disk space and network bandwidth. So, taking a
text editor. tags: software development concepts
In revenge of Notepad, I recommended Florian Balmer’s truly excellent freeware Notepad replacement, Notepad2. And when I say replacement, I mean replacement: copy notepad2.exe c:windowsservicepackfilesi386notepad.exe copy notepad2.exe c:windowssystem32dllcachenotepad.exe copy notepad2.exe c:windowssystem32notepad.exe copy notepad2.exe c:windowsnotepad.exe What good is